Jenny
> Drill baby Drill is absurd. Holding on to the past will only get us further in debt and lower our standard to living.
IMO in the very long run that’s true, and I am looking forward to seeing lots of plugin hybrids a decade or two from now. But nobody seriously believes that solar, wind, etc. will generate enough energy quickly enough to make a difference within the next decade.
Heck, even new nucular plants will probably take over a decade to come online because of all you greenies siccing armies of lawyers & regulators in its way. Not to mention all the opposition that has grown over windfarms by… well, no need to get into that.
The point is, THERE ARE NO MAGIC BULLETS. But meanwhile the economy needs energy to survive. For the next decade it’s going to have to be drill baby drill. There’s simply no getting around that.
Hoping that exotic new technologies will soon come online in mass quantities, and without NIMBYs trying to slow them down at every step of the way, is not an option.